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Steve Ballmer

"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that."

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Asa Don Brown

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

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Asa Don Brown

"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

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Asa Don Brown

"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."

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Asa Don Brown

"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

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Asa Don Brown

"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

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Asa Don Brown

"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised."

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Asa Don Brown

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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Asa Don Brown

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

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Asa Don Brown

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

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Asa Don Brown

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

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Steve Ballmer
"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that."

Criticism

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Steve Ballmer
"Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish."

People

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Steve Ballmer
"Accessible design is good design."

Design

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Steve Ballmer
"We will make our products work out of the box."

Work

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Steve Ballmer
"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."

Technology

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Steve Ballmer
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."

Life

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Steve Ballmer
"I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking."

People

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Steve Ballmer
"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."

Innovation

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Steve Ballmer
"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."

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Steve Ballmer
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."

Technology

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